"What's more mysterious than explosions happening thousands of times per day all over the sky, and you have no idea what's causing them?" Fast radio …
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Fast Radio Burst Discovery: Surprising New Pieces of the Celestial Puzzle
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are intense, short-lived blasts of radio waves hailing from beyond the Milky Way that can emit the same amount of energy in just thousandths of a second that the sun takes three days to emit.
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The FRB flashed farther away from Earth than any other previously observed. The brightest fast radio burst ever observed emerged from a group of …
The discovery doubles the known population of these repeating super-energetic cosmic explosions. Astronomers have doubled the known number of …
The find could be a big clue about the nature of fast radio bursts. Astronomers have discovered an activity cycle in another fast radio burst, …
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